http://dsdfghghfsdflgkfgkja.blogspot.com/2016/07/j-reacts-to-bloomberg-as-reaction-to.html

http://dsdfghghfsdflgkfgkja.blogspot.com/2016/07/j-reacts-to-bernie-sanders-reaction-to.html

i don't have any clear memories of going to dunrobin - i may have had some relatives on my mom's dad's side up that way, although i want to say they were closer to the water, in an older community. shirley's bay? - but i know that strip in gatineau well, and may have known people affected by the tornado, in a past life.

dunrobin is a wealthy community, but that part of gatineau is quite poor and those people will feel this for a long time.

that said, leftists understand that criminalizing drug use does not help in emancipating workers from addiction or in abolishing nihilistic attitudes towards consumption. this is a battle that must be waged via information, not with the force of authority.

the proper solution is to build a society where people have better things to do than get stoned, and consequently don't want to be stoned all of the time.

kind of like how i've built my life.

i realize that the drugs are affecting my productivity, and i don't like it. the ideal is to create systems where everybody has enough self-interest in their own labour that they feel this way; drug abuse is abolished not by force but via mass disengagement and mass disinterest.

it follows that the solution to drug addiction is the same thing as the solution to religion - the eradication of poverty.

a relaxed attitude towards gratuitous drug consumption is a broadly liberal/libertarian view, and not one that is properly associated with socialism, anarchism or other systems on the left. it's a fundamentally capitalistic position that puts profits over people.

historically, the left has generally tended to take a negative view of habitual drug use, as it works against any latent revolutionary potential, and converts rebellious workers into mindless drones. and, this function of drug use has never been lost on the elites, either, who have used it as a weapon on multiple occasions (see opium wars).

not only am i not a pothead, nor have i ever been one, nor do i want to be one, but i tend to look down on them as undesirables, and as a kind of lowest common denominator in society.

i have a broadly negative view of habitual marijuana users, as my experience with them has been that they have been slow-witted, lazy and unintelligent.

i am, have always been and always will be an advocate of sobriety, of science and of learning.

i continue to drink a lot of coffee, and i used to smoke a lot of cigarettes, but i have never smoked a lot of drugs, and i never will.

i have never been and have never wanted to be a pothead in the past.

i am not and do not want to be a pothead now.

i do not want to and will not become a pothead in the future.

i'm sorry.